Executive cars are big sellers in the UK, but which is the best? Vote for your
favourite to help decide the winners in the luxury and executive car
categories for the first Telegraph Motoring Awards.

This year’s Telegraph Festival of Motoring runs from Monday April 29 to May 3. After a simple and free online registration, you’ll be able to tour the exhibits, "walk around" the models, look at interiors and book a real test drive.

At the end of the week, there will also be the Telegraph Motoring Awards ceremony, where the winners will be decided by you.

The Awards are divided into a number of categories. Read Andrew English's introduction to the Luxury and Executive cars below and then scroll to the bottom of the page to vote for your favourite executive car.

You know one when you see one, but try defining a luxury or executive car – warning, you’ll be here for some time. Expensive? Yes, but if that definitely includes a £135,760, 6.0-litre Bentley Continental GT, does it also include a 1.2-litre Audi A1 costing £13,640?

Exclusive? Yes, but last year BMW and Audi sold more cars each than Citroën or Nissan, and Britons bought almost as many Mercedes-Benzes as they did Peugeots.

Luxurious? Yes, but in a world where you can specify air-conditioning, leather upholstery and a DAB radio on Britain’s cheapest car, the Dacia Sandero, just how many luxuries does a car need to qualify as luxurious? Its own spa and nail parlour?

Perhaps we need to define this by brand. But does the new, £78,095 V8 Range Rover go in the luxury or sports utility category? Is the Volvo marque luxury and executive? And with premium car makers beginning a headlong charge into the family hatchback market, can all BMW and Mercedes-Benz models be regarded as luxury and executive?

As you can see, these categories and the cars that exist within them aren’t easy to pigeonhole. Indeed, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ranks luxury cars in a different sector to executive cars.